Interface Overview report

Interface Overview report overview

The Interface Overview report shows an overview of protocol, TOS, host, and conversation traffic for a selected IGP interface. The report can be run on its own or as a drill-down from an Interface Utilization Summary report.

The default display is a set of graphs showing ingress, egress stacked trends and summaries.

Use cases

Capacity planning—Use the report to examine interface utilization patterns for planning future capacity requirements.

Prerequisites

The collection of IPFIX statistics, which are also called system Cflowd or NetFlow v10 statistics, must be enabled; see the NSP NFM-P Statistics Management Guide.

To view the report for granularities other than raw data, the aggregation rules must be enabled; see How do I configure analytics aggregation?. The following table describes the aggregation rules and the accounting policies that must be configured for the NEs on which statistics are to be collected; see the NSP NFM-P Statistics Management Guide for information about configuring an accounting policy.

Table 14-27: Interface Overview report prerequisites

Aggregator name

Statistics collection

Details

NE types

Analytics_cflowd_sys_pt_proto_r

Flow Statistics collected through a Flow Collector

Analytics_cflowd_sys_pt_proto_r

7250 IXR

7450 ESS

7705 SAR

7750 SR

7950 XRS

Analytics_cflowd_sys_ot_tos_r

Flow Statistics collected through a Flow Collector

Analytics_cflowd_sys_ot_tos_r

7250 IXR

7450 ESS

7705 SAR

7750 SR

7950 XRS

Analytics_cflowd_sys_ht_if_hip_r

Flow Statistics collected through a Flow Collector

Analytics_cflowd_sys_ht_if_hip_r

7250 IXR

7450 ESS

7705 SAR

7750 SR

7950 XRS

Analytics_cflowd_sys_ct_if_ip1ip2_r

Flow Statistics collected through a Flow Collector

Analytics_cflowd_sys_ct_if_ip1ip2_r

7250 IXR

7450 ESS

7705 SAR

7750 SR

7950 XRS

Notes:
  1. Note: The 7705 SAR-H is not supported.

Report characteristics

The following table lists the principal report characteristics.

Table 14-28: Interface Overview report characteristics

Characteristic

Value

Data type

Statistics

Statistics type

IPFIX

NSP Flow Collector required

Yes

Source database

Auxiliary database

Interface types supported

IP (IS-IS, OSPF, RIP), MPLS

Report inputs

Prompt

Notes

End date

Calendar date or relative date (for example, two days ago) and time

Granularity

Aggregation types:

  • None (raw data)

  • Hourly

  • Daily

  • Monthly

Report Range

Length of time to be reported, in minutes (minutes, min), hours (hours, h), days (days, d), or months (months, m)

NE Types

Search using partial names or wildcard (%).

Select individual items or click Select All.

NE (or NE Name Pattern)

NE

Interface Name (or Name Pattern)

Interface

Direction

Ingress, Egress, or Both

Top N

Number of interfaces to report

Logo Resource ID

The logo to add to the report. Enter the Resource ID of the logo image in the Images folder.

The default is the Nokia logo. To create the report without a logo, leave the Logo Resource ID field blank.

Logo Position

Choose Left, Middle, or Right. The logo appears on the left on the first page of the report if you choose Left or Middle.

Show report output on one page

Select the check box to enable pagination.

Note: Using the Show report output on one page option when creating reports as drill-downs may impact report rendering time. Nokia recommends disabling the Show report output on one page option when creating reports.

Drill-down support

No

Example

The following figures show a report example.

Figure 14-30: Interface Overview report—Stacked Protocol Trend - In
Interface Overview report—Stacked Protocol Trend - In
Figure 14-31: Interface Overview report—Stacked Protocol Trend – Out
Interface Overview report—Stacked Protocol Trend – Out
Figure 14-32: Interface Overview report, Stacked TOS Trend – In
Interface Overview report, Stacked TOS Trend – In
Figure 14-33: Interface Overview report—Stacked TOS Trend – Out
Interface Overview report—Stacked TOS Trend – Out
Figure 14-34: Interface Overview report—Host Summary – Volume – From
Interface Overview report—Host Summary – Volume – From
Figure 14-35: Interface Overview report—Host Summary - Volume - To
Interface Overview report—Host Summary - Volume - To
Figure 14-36: Interface Overview report—Conversion Summary - Volume - Total
Interface Overview report—Conversion Summary - Volume - Total